The Ease of Wolfram Alpha, the Power of Mathematica: Introducing Wolfram

Wolfram Alpha has been a huge hit with students. Whether in college or high school, Wolfram Alpha has become a ubiquitous way for students to get answers. But it's a one-shot process: a student enters the question they want to ask (say in math) and Wolfram Alpha gives them the (usually richly contextualized) answer. It's incredibly useful--especially when coupled with its step-by-step solution capabilities. But what if one doesn't want just a one-shot answer? What if one wants to build up (or work through) a whole computation?